Cannes swoons over its new action-man star Matthias Schoenaerts

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A special shiver runs through Cannes when the festival unearths a new global
star.

It happened in 1953 with Brigitte Bardot and her bikini and most recently
occurred three years ago with the remarkable Christoph Waltz in Quentin
Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Yesterday it happened again.

Rust and Bone, the new film by the revered French director Jacques
Audiard, sharply divided the critics but on one thing they nearly all
agreed: its muscle-bound Belgian star Matthias Schoenaerts is something
special.

Schoenaerts is enormous and viscerally convincing in his brutal fight scenes
but also good looking, a compellingly subtle actor and, as

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Marion Cotillard with Matthias Schoenaerts in a scene from De rouille et d’os (Rust and Bone)

May 18 2012 EPA

Marion Cotillard with Matthias Schoenaerts in a scene from De rouille et d’os (Rust and Bone)

May 18 2012 EPA

Matthias Schoenaerts: "There's quite a lot of stuff moving. But I'm not in a hurry"